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sales2099 on 28 November 2012
S.T.A.G.E. said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
The Playstion (first as an intended partnership with Nintendo, then solo) brand was made and developed to mainstream new media and harware - CD's, DVD's, Blu-Ray's. It was very successful in this goal. The XBox (first as a partnership with SEGA) brand was made to push the gaming and media capabilities of PC's and prevent a different option from becoming a central computing hub in the home. In particular, in the very late 90's Microsoft was concerned with the stagnation of PC advancement. Microsoft makes most of it's money on new PC purchases with new pre-installed Windows, so a slowing in tech advancement means less new PC's purcahsed. The XBox was designed to push game and multimedia limits which would in turn push PC game and multimedia expectations of consumers, encouraging them to buy new machines. It has always been OK at Microsoft if XBox loses money, as long as it's doing it's job of pushing PC sales.

Developing game software has always been secondary for Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo is the only true "games" hardware company left, but all three just want our money in one way or another.

But great sales for 360, wii and DS, systems that pretty much anyone who wants one already has it!!

Really, then why has Sony made the most IP's this gen?

Trying new ideas in the hopes they get their own Halo or Mario?



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VGKing on 28 November 2012

This thread was ruined by walls of text and silly arguments. Mods should really start being a bit more aggressive to the new users and enforce the rules.

OT: Can't believe someone didn't leak Sony numbers yet.....I'm sure Vita numbers were at least respectable.



ironmanDX on 28 November 2012
VGKing said:
This thread was ruined by walls of text and silly arguments. Mods should really start being a bit more aggressive to the new users and enforce the rules.

OT: Can't believe someone didn't leak Sony numbers yet.....I'm sure Vita numbers were at least respectable.


Yeah....

Sorry guys... My bad.



S.T.A.G.E. on 28 November 2012
J_Allard said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
J_Allard said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
theprof00 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
theprof00 said:
I'm just wondering why ps3 wasn't mentioned, just wii.
Is it because nintendo gave numbers already, and sony hasn't?


Sony is always like that. We always end up waiting a full a couple days to a week for a full release of info.

Except they never tell us anything lol.
Hard to be a Sony fan sometimes...T_T


Why? Because they dont like to boast?

Funny, they didn't mind boasting the last two generations when they weren't in last place.


When they were boasting I was pretty young. I dont remember that let alone being on a site like this. When they were on top E3 wasnt really the big thing.

 

E3 was even bigger then than it is now. Go back and read all the BS Sony boasted about before the PS3 launch. Read virtually anything Jack Tretton says.

The notion that Sony doesn't boast is just incredible. They simply don't have much to boast over anymore.


I started watching E3 this gen around the same time I started going to college and took economics. After that I joined this site after my second E3.



S.T.A.G.E. on 28 November 2012
sales2099 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
The Playstion (first as an intended partnership with Nintendo, then solo) brand was made and developed to mainstream new media and harware - CD's, DVD's, Blu-Ray's. It was very successful in this goal. The XBox (first as a partnership with SEGA) brand was made to push the gaming and media capabilities of PC's and prevent a different option from becoming a central computing hub in the home. In particular, in the very late 90's Microsoft was concerned with the stagnation of PC advancement. Microsoft makes most of it's money on new PC purchases with new pre-installed Windows, so a slowing in tech advancement means less new PC's purcahsed. The XBox was designed to push game and multimedia limits which would in turn push PC game and multimedia expectations of consumers, encouraging them to buy new machines. It has always been OK at Microsoft if XBox loses money, as long as it's doing it's job of pushing PC sales.

Developing game software has always been secondary for Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo is the only true "games" hardware company left, but all three just want our money in one way or another.

But great sales for 360, wii and DS, systems that pretty much anyone who wants one already has it!!

Really, then why has Sony made the most IP's this gen?

Trying new ideas in the hopes they get their own Halo or Mario?


Nope, they've touched on more genres than that. Having a well rounded stable is more important to Sony than just being known for one or two genres like the other two. They are more experimental. Being experimental isn't important to Microsoft, having what sells is more important to them. Sony wants that too but they want a large well rounded stable of characters and genres.



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ZaneWane on 28 November 2012

according to october npd xbox is 10.88m behind playstation 2 and 4.49m behind nintendo wii



ethomaz on 28 November 2012
ZaneWane said:
according to october npd xbox is 10.88m behind playstation 2 and 4.49m behind nintendo wii

I think it will outsell the Wii in the next year... the PS2 is harder to predict because I think the 360 will slow down after 720 release.



man-bear-pig on 28 November 2012
kowenicki said:
So

360 > Wii + Wii U
360 > DS + 3DS
360 > WiiU + 3DS

I'm hoping

360 > PS3 + PSV + PSP

could be tough, but one can hope.


PS3 - 400k

PSV - 120k

PSP - 20k?

PS3 + PSV + PSP should be about 540k. So yeah, it won't come close



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

Alby_da_Wolf on 28 November 2012
Vinniegambini said:
Down about 30% over last year but still, this is really impressive!


Yes, considering this year it had to fight with Wii U in its launch week it's very impressive.



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Gamerace on 28 November 2012

A system entering it's eighth year on the market sold 3/4 of a million units, in one week, in one region, despite competition from a new system.

Respect.